Kübler-Ross for Twitter

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The Twitter love it or hate it reaction is similar to love-hate we have in the human experience with death so it makes sense that there be 5 Stages of Twitter Acceptance beginning with Denial, much like in Elisabeth Kübler-Ross outlined in her book “On Death and Dying.”

Acceptance of Twitter, of course, is much less finite than in Kübler-Ross model.

5 Stages of Twitter Acceptance [Influential Marketing Blog]

The Kübler-Ross model first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book “On Death and Dying”, describes, in five discrete stages, a process by which people allegedly deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness. The stages are known as the Five Stages of Grief. [via wikipedia]

The stages are:

1. Denial:
   • Example – “I feel fine.”; “This can’t be happening, not to me!”
2. Anger:
   • Example – “Why me? It’s not fair!” “NO! NO! How can this happen!”
3. Bargaining:
   • Example – “Just let me live to see my children graduate.”; “I’ll do anything, can’t you stretch it out? A few more years.”
4. Depression:
   • Example – “I’m so sad, why bother with anything?”; “I’m going to die . . . What’s the point?”
5. Acceptance:
   • Example – “It’s going to be OK.”; “I can’t fight it, I may as well prepare for it.”